Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family

By Nancy Folbre

Book Overview

Parents spend time as well as money on children. Yet most estimates of the 'cost' of children ignore the value of this time. Folbre provides a high but entirely credible estimate of the value of parental time per child by asking what it would cost to purchase a comparable sustitute for it.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674026322
• ISBN13: 9780674026322
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"